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Brazil’s Environment minister, Carlos Minc, is celebrating the pace of Brazilian deforestation. The last numbers released by the National Institute of Space Studies (Inpe) this Wednesday, November 4, shows that Brazil in September has downed 400 km²...
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Carlos Minc, the Environment minister of Brazil, claims increased policing have brought a sharp drop in Amazon deforestation over the past year, despite July’s...
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